Related Records:Record copies of publications of the Department
of Health, Education, and Welfare in RG 287, Publications of the
U.S. Government.
Records of the Office of Education, RG 12.
Records of the Civilian Conservation Corps, RG 35.
Records of the Social Security Administration, RG 47.
Records of the Food and Drug Administration, RG 88.
Records of the Public Health Service, 1912-1968, RG 90.
Records of the Children's Bureau, RG 102.
Records of the National Youth Administration, RG 119.
Records of the Office of Employment Security, RG 183.
Records of the War Manpower Commission, RG 211.
Records of the Office of Community War Services, RG 215.
Records of the Social and Rehabilitation Service, RG 363.
Records of St. Elizabeths Hospital, RG 418.
General Records of the Department of Education, RG 441.
General Records of the Department of Health and Human Services,
RG 468.

History: Established by Reorganization Plan No. I of 1939,
effective July 1, 1939, with oversight responsibility for the
following constituent units transferred from other agencies:
Office of Education; Public Health Service (PHS); National Youth
Administration (NYA); Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC); Social
Security Board (SSB); and U.S. Employment Service (USES,
incorporated by same plan into Bureau of Employment Security,
SSB). For administrative histories of these constituent units,
see RG 12, RG 90, RG 119, RG 35, RG 47, and RG 183, respectively.
Radio Division and U.S. Film Service transferred from Department
of the Treasury and incorporated into Office of Education; and
federal functions relating to American Printing House for the
Blind transferred from Department of the Treasury, by
Reorganization Plan No. II of 1939, effective July 1, 1939. Food
and Drug Administration transferred from Department of
Agriculture; St. Elizabeths Hospital transferred from Department
of the Interior; Freedmen's Hospital transferred from Department
of the Interior and incorporated into PHS; and federal functions
relating to Howard University and the Columbia Institution for
the Deaf transferred from Department of the Interior, by
Reorganization Plan No. IV of 1940, effective June 30, 1940.
Apprentice Training Service (ATS) transferred from Department of
Labor; and Training Within Industry Service (TWIS) transferred
from War Production Board, by EO 9139, April 18, 1942. CCC
abolished by Labor-Federal Security Appropriation Act (56 Stat.
569), July 2, 1942. War Research Service (WRS) established by
verbal directive of the President and the Secretary of War,
August 26, 1942, to coordinate federal research in biological
warfare. NYA, USES, ATS, and TWIS transferred to War Manpower
Commission by EO 9247, September 17, 1942. Office of Community
War Services (OCWS; SEE RG 215) established in FSA by EO 9338,
April 29, 1943, superseding abolished Office of Defense Health
and Welfare Services. Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
established, September 4, 1943, pursuant to Vocational
Rehabilitation Act (57 Stat. 374), July 6, 1943. WRS abolished,
with functions transferred to War Department, by letter of
Secretary of War and FSA Administrator to the President, May 12,
1944, approved by the President, June 8, 1944. By Reorganization
Plan No. 2 of 1946, effective July 16, 1946, SSB abolished, with
functions transferred to new and expanded FSA agency, Social
Security Administration; and Bureau of Employees' Compensation
(BEC) and Employees' Compensation Appeals Board (ECAB)
established, superseding abolished U.S. Employees' Compensation
Commission. OCWS abolished, effective December 31, 1946, by
Labor-Security Appropriation Act, 1947 (60 Stat. 695), July 26,
1946. BEC and ECAB transferred to Department of Labor by
Reorganization Plan No. 19 of 1950, effective May 24, 1950. FSA
abolished by Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1953, effective April
11, 1953, with functions transferred to newly established
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. See 235.1.

Textual Records: Studies and reports on aspects of personnel
management, 1936-43. Retained copies of reports to U.S. Civil
Service Commission on federal civilian employment appropriations,
1936-43. Statistical and other reports of the Analysis Section,
1936-41.

History: Established by FSA Administrator, March 1945, to assist
Surplus Property Board in Office of War Mobilization and
Reconversion in evaluating applications of nonprofit health,
educational, and social welfare organizations to receive surplus
war material. Terminated January 10, 1947.

235.3.2 Records of the Office of the Assistant Secretary
(Administration)

Textual Records: Official files of Jule M. Sugarman, Acting
Director of the Office of Child Development (OCD, 1969-70),
relating mainly to the establishment and operation of OCD, but
also including information on Sugarman's prior work in the
Children's Bureau and with the Head Start Program, in the Office
of Economic Opportunity, 1966-70.

History: Established by Secretary of HEW, February 21, 1975, to
study Food and Drug Administration policies on approval and
disapproval of new drugs. Terminated upon submission of final
report, May 31, 1977.

Textual Records: Official files of FSA/HEW official Dean Atlee
Snyder, consisting of correspondence, 1945-73; and a compilation
of document copies detailing the history of OCWS and its
predecessors (1940-47), and FSA/HEW civil defense activities
(1947-58), 1940-58.

Bibliographic note: Web version based on Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States. Compiled by Robert B. Matchette et al. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1995.
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